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AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. KENTUCKY (1927)

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AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. KENTUCKY
Term: 1926
Important Dates
Argued: January 29, 1925
Decided: February 21, 1927
Outcome
Affirmed (includes modified)
Vote
7-2
Majority
Louis Dembitz Brandeis • Oliver Wendell Holmes • James Clark McReynolds • Edward Terry Sanford • Harlan Fiske Stone • William Howard Taft • Willis Van Devanter
Dissenting
Pierce Butler • George Sutherland

AMERICAN RAILWAY EXPRESS COMPANY v. KENTUCKY is a case that was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States on February 21, 1927. The case was argued before the court on January 29, 1925.

In a 7-2 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of the lower court. The case originated from the Kentucky State Trial Court.

For a full list of cases decided in the 1920s, click here. For a full list of cases decided by the Taft Court, click here.

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About the case

  • Subject matter: Economic Activity - state or local government tax
  • Petitioner: Railroad
  • Petitioner state: Unknown
  • Respondent type: State
  • Respondent state: Kentucky
  • Citation: 273 U.S. 269
  • How the court took jurisdiction: Cert
  • What type of decision was made: Opinion of the court (orally argued)
  • Who was the chief justice: William Howard Taft
  • Who wrote the majority opinion: James Clark McReynolds

These data points were accessed from The Supreme Court Database, which also attempts to categorize the ideological direction of the court's ruling in each case. This case's ruling was categorized as liberal.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Harold J. Spaeth, Lee Epstein, et al., "2023 Supreme Court Database, Version 2023 Release 1 and SCDB Legacy 07," accessed March 21, 2024
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